> the USA has no (federally robust) legal protection for citizens to guard against data collection and aggregation. In the US, laws and court rulings have held

> the USA has no (federally robust) legal protection for citizens to guard against data collection and aggregation. In the US, laws and court rulings have held that the person/company that aggregates the data owns the data. In the past it was based on phonebook authoring, but has since become "whoever owns the computer owns whatever data is in that computer". The EU has the opposite - you own the data about yourself. We need to move to that standard.